Meanings
- Combined with silicon.
- Impregnated with silica; petrified.
Some of the best evidence of what happened comes from Germany, where the silicified trunks of about 80 species of trees have been found preserved in what was once a great lagoon fringing the northern slopes of the rising Alps.
2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 99
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of silicify
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